KIEV: Firefighters have nearly extinguished a forest fire near Ukraine’s Chernobyl plant, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986 and hope to put it out fully within two days, the emergency services said on Thursday.
“There are no more open flames,” but fires are still smouldering out of sight, said the deputy head of the emergencies ministry, Mykola Chechetkin, cited by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
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Source: The Gulf Today
